Brush-strap fastener.



- No. 740,576. n PATENTED 0012.6, 1903.

JP. H. LOVELBss. BRUSH STRAP FASTENER.

APPLIGATION FILED JAN. 2,-1903.

` UNITED STATES Patented October 6, 1903.

PATENT OEEICE.

FRED H. LOVELESS, OFTIFFIN, OHIO,` A'SSIGNOR T O THE OHIO BRUSH COMPANY, OF TIFFIN, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.l

BRUSH-STRAP FASTNER.

srnorrrontron arming part of Leners Patent No. 740,576, dated october e, 1903. i

Application iiledwl'anuary 2, 1903. i 5

Be it known that I, FRED H. LOVELESS, a citizen of the United States, residingat Tifiv n, in the county of Senecaand State of Ohio,- have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brush- Strap Fasteners, of which the following is a specification. y

This invention relates to improvements in means for attaching the strap to hand-brush es of various kinds--such as horse -brushes, scrub-brushes, blacking-brushes, clothesbrushes, and the like-andthe object of the invention is to provideva simple, efficient, and inexpensive means for attaching the strap to the back of the brush whereby it may be lengthened or shortened expeditiously or wholly removed without any appliances tol work with and without cutting the strap.

I accomplish the objects of the invention by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-f Figure l is a side elevation and partial section of abrush embodying myinvention; Fig. 2, a top plan view of same; Fig. 3, a plan View of a modified form having a double set of strapattaching grooves; Fig. 4, an endview of a second modified form of 'my inven# tion; Fig. 5, a side elevation of the modification shown in Fig. 4; Fig. 6, adet-ail in cross-Y section of a leather back with metal-lining tube in a groove at the edge of the back, and Fig. '7 a like detail with groove taking from the side of the back.

Like numbers of reference indicate like parts` throughout the several views of the Y the grooves run longitudinallyof theback of 7 represents the Vback of thebrush, which is preferably made of wood.

8 represents the tufts or bunches of bristles or fiber, which' are made up in any suitable" manner and inserted and secured in any substantial'way.

The top of the brush has two grooves or channels 9 9, starting from opposite sides and extending across the top to near the opposite side from which the respective groove started, These grooves are formed by boring a cylin drical hole below the surface of the top of the brush and then forming a saw-kerf narrower than the bore and radially of the latter through the remaining thickness of the brnshsentira. 137,507. 'on man.)

i back above the bore. This produces the preferableform of groove; but as the main consideration is to produce a groove which broadens toward its bottom l'do not limit myself to the above construction.

lOis a strap, preferably of leather, the ends of which are doubled or fold-ed back uponthe body, and the folded ends are each inserted in the respective slots.' The fold causes an enlargement or thickening of the end of the strap which is accommodated by the enlargement at the base of Vthe groove. The folded ends are inserted through the ends of the slots, and withdrawal of the folded strap ends is prevented by the restricted groove-outlet. Should the strap 'be too long or too short forthe sizeof the users hand, the ends will be slipped out of their grooves and lengthened or shortened by making the folds nearer or farther from the ends. Y

Vlhere the strap is not desired, as with some users, it can be readily removed, and in shipping much valuable space may be saved by removing the straps and packing them and the `brushes separately, ,tobel assembled at their destination. y

'By setting the strap diagonally of the back a firmer grip :may be obtainedpn the brush, and as this diagonal position will dier in a right-handed brush from that required in a brush for a left-handed-person l provide a double set of grooves oppositely positioned,

as4 shown in Fig. 3, which permits of changes l in position of the strap to suit the user.

In the modication shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the brush through the side edges thereof, the

grooves being started from opposite ends of said back, as shown.

, Figs. 6 and 7 show modifications in which a metal-linin g tube ll is used to give strength andv form to the grooves in leather-back brushes. j

Having thusfully described my invention,

gwhat l claimas new, and wish to secure by bore entering the head from opposite edges and radial slot-outlets from said bores narrower than the Adiameter of the bore, the inner end of the bore being closed, and a strap folded double at its ends the folded ends being inserted in the slots.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Tiffin, Ohio, this llth day of December, A. D. 1902.

FRED H. LOVELESS.. [L. s]

Witnesses:

HARRY A. BOYER, R. D. NILER. 

